Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, has found herself at the centre of a debate over artificial intelligence after remarks she made at Impact’26 in Poznań were widely interpreted as an admission that she uses AI in her writing process. During the talk, she described AI as a tool that can broaden creative thinking and help with developing ideas. She also warned that the technology can produce factual errors. What began as a discussion about creativity and technology soon turned into a heated debate about the future of literature and the role of AI in artistic work. Tokarczuk later issued a clarification saying her forthcoming novel was not written with AI and that she mainly uses the technology for brainstorming, developing ideas, preliminary research and fact-checking.
